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Date:1967
Contributor:Najlis, Elena L.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:41 pages
Description: "Descripcion del Abipon" regarding phonology, morphology, and syntax. Forwarded with letter to Carl F. Voegelin.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Muruwari includes: Murrawarri
Gumbaynggir includes: Kumbainggar
Language:English
Date:1897-1898
Contributor:Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918
Subject:Indigenous peoples--Australia | Cartography | Kinship | Australia--History | New South Wales--History | Queensland--History | Petroglyphs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:15 letters
Description: Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society largely concerning Robert H. Mathews' proposal and preparation of a series of articles on Aboriginal Australians published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. The letters contain little direct ethnographic content, but may provide additional context on Mathews's research on peoples of New South Wales and southern Queensland during the mid- to late 1890s. These letters have all been digitized.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:circa 1825
Subject:Social life and customs | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Reports
Extent:1 reel
Description: This is a forty-eight page report on Delaware culture and language, with selected words and phrases and their meanings, by C. C. Trowbridge in response to a 1823 questionnaire distributed by Lewis Cass. In part a criticism of Heckewelder and DuPonceau. Originals at the University of Michigan.
Collection:Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa Indians: traditions of the Lenee Lenaupee or Delawares: and, language of the Delawares, [ca. 1825] (Mss.Film.883)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Language:Achumawi
Date:2016-2020
Contributor:Nevin, Bruce E.
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Databases | Vocabularies
Extent:1 FLEx database
Description: Database in the Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) format, containing data from legacy published and unpublished mansucripts sources and Nevin's own fieldwork. This database is being added to and developed on an ongoing basis by Nevin and updates are archived annually at the APS.
Collection:Achumawi language database (Mss.SMs.Coll.45)
Date:1907, 1931-1935
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Carmony, Willard | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:California--History | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Linguistics | Boarding schools
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:615 pages
Description: The Achumawi materials in the ACLS collection are primarily located in the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, with some also in the "Atsugewi" section (specifically item H1a.2, "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts"). They include a word list from the Pit River area; autobiographies of Willard Carmony, an Achumawi speaker, whose stories refers to being sent to Fort Bidwell Indian Boarding School; linguistic analysis of Achumawi's relationship to the Hokan language family; conversational texts in the Achumawi language; free English translations; and grammars. Also included are notes on dialectical differences between Atwamdzini, Hammawi, and Adzumawi.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Hokan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders, 1 box
Description: Three items relating to the Achumawi language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. They consist of a folder of Achumawi & Atsugewi material and a folder containing a comparative vocabulary of California tribes (with words from from Hupa, Wiyot, Karuk, Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Konkow, Yana, Wintu, Maidu, and Modoc) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries V. Hokan; and a box of notes in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Language:English
Date:circa 1910s-1930s
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:1911-1915, 1936
Contributor:Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Pitkin, Harvey | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks
Description: The Achumawi materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers consist of miscellaneous materials in Series III, a political history of the tribe in III-A, and linguistic material collected by A.M. Halpern and J.P. Harrington also in III-A.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:1953-1976
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Hawkins, James | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Shirley, Silver | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Radin, Doris
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' brief Achumawi (Pit River) file contains a lexicon, likely derived from the work of J. P. Harrington of Big Bend Achumawi with consultant James Hawkins (Series 9), and correspondence with Paul and Doris Radin and Silver Shirley about her Californian fieldwork (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Language:English | Keres, Western
Date:circa 1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Subject:Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography | New Mexico--History | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Songs
Extent:69 pages
Description: The Acoma materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Acoma" section of the finding aid, "Songs from Acoma and Santa Ana" (item Ke2.1), a manuscript with texts of 88 songs with interlinear translations, including typed copy of one song arranged in model form. Numbers refer to phonograph records, likely at the National Anthropological Archives. English Orthography and spelling; phonetic emendations by Franz Boas. Includes songs from Santa Ana Pueblo.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)